Re-Art Swap

Sunday, June 24, 2012

Every year, a local art store hosts a Re-Art Swap, where anyone can drop off old art supplies and take anything they want for free! This year I volunteered to help out for a few hours and I had a great time sorting and looking through things.

Here is my big box of stuff that I donated. It felt so good to clean out my art supplies. Little did I know that I would come back with as much stuff as I gave away! Although most of what I picked up are things that I am going to bring to the school I teach at, so at least it won't be stuff in my house.

People looking through piles and piles of fabric scraps and other goodies. The place was open all day and lots of people came and went, dropping off old supplies and picking up new ones. It truly was "one man's trash is another man's treasure." The area was bigger than my camera captured.

More boxes of stuff.

Here are some of the things I scored for my art classroom at school.

These are very delicate, thin pieces of wood cut into a variety of shapes. This will be fun to use in collages for the kids.